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People cut poles all the time. It messes with the sailpiece and some other junk, but its great for straight-pole vaulting. 6ft is very good for a 7th grader, just keep working on fundamentals and try to find a good coach or club to jump with. A good coach is a key to success in high school, you won...

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Yelena Isenbayeva Adidas commercial

this would be an amazing item that PVP could make up and sell to us! I'm sure there's more than one coach *or athlete* out there that would love these as a gift...

powerplant42 wrote:Anybody else here been accused of being a 'dumb bunny'? Haha!

guilty as charged! =P

I never quite understood what everyone meant when they said 'get your plant up sooner!' I always thought that that meant i was lowering it to slow... but then Alan taught us this drill he used on Isinbayeva where u do the last six step on your approach but pause on the fifth one to check where your ...

Is that you ALWAYS need a solid core. Need to keep your abs tight. One day in practice we were doing simple drills into the sand pit and I could not for the life of me get my bottom arm to stay out *I've always've had a problem with collapsing early* and could not keep my shoulders open and solid. s...

this may seem a bit off topic at first, but it's essential: so i was sitting in chemistry one day when the kid behind me shouts to my teacher about how he was going to stay awake *he has a reputation for sleeping* in class that day because he had a monster. my teacher just looked at him and basicall...

So it WOULD be to the runner's benefit to lean forward acrost the line. Okay.

kool. well, in high school we aren't exactly spiffy *or rich* enough to have automatic timers like that... and I'm pretty sure our timers have just about as little knowledge as to when to hit the button at the end as do everyone in the stands besides the coaches... we've gotten some pretty funky tim...

okay, so if you were to have really long strides and have your foot cross the line before your body does your time wouldnt stop? It'd have to be your torso a split second later?

for sprinting events i always see people dipping their heads or their whole torsos to have some part of their body cross the finish line before the people next to them and i was wondering: what exactly counts as the official end time? when your foot crosses the finish line? your hips? your head? or ...

snow26 wrote:if you go to high school and you have a track that nice and a football field like that something is wrong here.

what are you talking about? that's the way it should be! no one cares about football!!

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